Mumbai: As the train heads to Mumbai from Marathwada, the air resonates with the ever-so-familiar poem from school, ‘Shikari aata hai, jaal failata hai. Daane ka lobh dikhata hai, lekin hamein jaal mein naïf fasna chahiye. The poem takes on a new meaning in Marathwada though: there are tales galore of the predator and prey [...]

New Delhi: The decision of the Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests (I/C), Mr. Jairam Ramesh, to place a moratorium on the clearance accorded by Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC), to the environmental release of the Bt brinjal variety developed by M/s Mahyco (an Indian seed company with substantial investment from US multinational, [...]

Nahan, Janury16: Road safety club today organized an awareness rally in the town in which more than 200 students from different educational institutions took part. Superintendent of Police P.D Parsad fagged off the rally near choggan ground. The president of the Road safety club Amarjeet Singh Parmar said that the aim of the rally was [...]

New Delhi: On the eve of World AIDS Day, WHO released new recommendations on treatment, prevention and infant feeding in the context of HIV, based on the latest scientific evidence.
WHO now recommends earlier initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for adults and adolescents, the delivery of more patient-friendly antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), and prolonged use of ARVs [...]

There is an unprecedented growth of Maddersah’s in a hilly hamlet Bhalessa (Doda). There is rising tide in madrasah education, as is being witnessed today. The Madersah’s increased in number. Interestingly, the number rose to 12 in an inaccessible area of Bhalessa including Thathri. Besides nurturing the Islamic clerics from these Madrasah’s including Hafiz and [...]

Canada:  Sajid Anjum writes- World Climate Change and Environment is the much debated subject of today’s time. So what about the role of more than 1.5 billion of World Muslim Population? How can they contribute to saving the earth? I am trying to focus on world’s one third population who are not paying attention about [...]

The Indian government should take major steps to overhaul a policing system that facilitates and even encourages human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said in a report released in Lucknow on 7 August 2009 at UP Press Club. For decades, successive governments have failed to deliver on promises to hold the police accountable for abuses [...]

New Delhi: The safety of Bangalore Metro Rail Project has been called to question many times over the past couple of years. Several deaths and injuries have been the result exposing the poor attention accorded to worker and public safety. While some of the causes of death and injury may have been accidental, careful scrutiny [...]

On the international day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking, drug users gathered outside Shastri Bhavan (New Delhi, India), to reject “sham” programmes for addiction and demand meaningful involvement in policies. Protesting torture and cruelty in de-addiction centres, drug users called upon the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, to “clean up” drug treatment and [...]

Lucknow: When tragedy strikes children of underprivileged homes whom do they turn too? Victims of unfortunate circumstances they are forced to be deprived of the their basic right to survival.
Worse still their families have no answers to questions like where do poor families who cannot afford treatment seek financial help? Who is responsible for the [...]

Chandigarh is the only smoke free city in India
 
New Delhi: To strengthen the reporting mechanism of violations of smoke free rules and to encourage non-smokers and public at large to report violations under the Revised Smoke-Free Rules, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has launched National Toll Free Help line No. 1800-110-456 (24×7) which is now operative [...]

Civil society has lodged a written complaint against the painting of a part of the 85 years old Vidhan Sabha building (state council house) by the Estate Department of the Mayawati-led government in Uttar Pradesh (UP) state in India.
Magsaysay Awardee (2002) Dr Sandeep Pandey was part of the delegation to the UP state Governor TV [...]

Lucknow, INDIA: Citizens expressed their deep concern about the blatant misuse of print and electronic media by parties and candidates contesting the Lok Sabha elections in 2009 and about the media allowing itself to be abused. “This constitutes a gross breach of trust with the reader/viewer who expects unbiased and fair news coverage during elections” [...]

Dharamsala: Association of Tibetan journalists join the voice against suppression of freedom of press on the World Press Freedom Day. The Association of Tibetan journalists calls on the governments of the world, especially those countries where freedom of press is suppressed, to respect freedom of press and freedom of speech in their countries.
Reports from Tibet [...]